A recent study of 82 golfers by researchers at the Neuromuscular Research Lab of the University of Pittsburgh found that players with the lowest handicaps had the strongest hips.

A clinical trial by the same group shows that improving strength and flexibility in the hips and torso can boost "torso velocity" during a golf swing, adding 20 yards to a golfer's driving distance!

"My Somax Power Hip Trainer is the first golf exercise machine designed specifically to advance the timing and increase the range, strength, stamina and speed of your hip rotation during the golf swing."

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The Power Hip Trainer was featured in Golf Digest and received the PGA Tour Partner's Club magazine Recommended Seal of Approval.

Order your Power Hip Trainer now. Say goodbye to weak, ineffective hips and hello to long, accurate drives.

Power in Golf

We all know that power in golf comes from the rotation of the hips, and that we should begin our downswing with the lower body, but it's easier said than done.

The reason it's difficult to start the downswing with the lower body is that our muscles learn best by resistance. The only resistance during the downswing occurs with the muscles of the arms as they work against the inertia of the golf club. Unfortunately, there is no natural resistance to the rotation of the hips.

But now there is.

The Power Hip Trainer not only supplies resistance to hip rotation, making it easier to learn, but it will also accelerate your hips for you.

Golf Swing Speed and Timing

At the top of the backswing, the best professional golfers have rotated their hips back 60º. At impact, their hips are 60 º open. This means you have to rotate your hips a total of 120º before impact. While the backswing takes a leisurely 0.83 second, it takes just 0.4 second to return the club to impact with the ball.

Actually, you have even less time than this. Most professional golfers have reached 45º open well before impact, at what we call the Cast Point, when the lead arm is 45º below horizontal, or when your hands are at the level of your hips. You only have 0.33 second to get to this point, or just 1/3rd of a second!

A player's handicap is closely linked to the timing of their hip rotation. Double-digit handicappers tend to start their downswing with their left arm 0.03 to 0.13 second before they begin to rotate their hips.

As a result, their hips are not open at the Cast Point or at impact. Most golfers waste precious time during their downswing sliding their hips instead of turning them. As a result, their hips are square at the Cast Point, and even at impact. Their legs and hips aren't contributing much power to the golf swing.

Since they're firing their arm muscles first, they depend primarily on the muscles of the upper body to both guide and power the club. This makes for weak, inconsistent shots. Muscles can't simultaneously provide both guidance and power.

Scratch players tend to fire the muscles of the upper and lower body together. Therefore, their hips are usually not open at the Cast Point, and are only 20-30 degrees open at impact.

Top professional players initiate their downswing with the lower body. Their hips start rotating 0.03 to 0.13 second before the arm moves. The better the player, the earlier they rotate their hips.

They power the club with the large muscles of the lower body, and use the smaller muscles of the arm to guide the club. Thus they have both power and accuracy.

Just 0.26 second in hip rotation timing separates the top professionals and double-digit handicappers. This fact illustrates the critical importance of the speed and timing of hip rotation to success in golf.

As we help golfers at our clinic near San Francisco advance their timing and increase the speed of their hip rotation, they play better golf. Their drives and irons are longer and more accurate.

Exactly How Does the Power Hip Trainer Improve Golf Swing Speed and Timing?

If you're not lucky enough to naturally rotate your hips early on your downswing, you need to learn how. If you've tried, you know it's not easy.

Now it is.

With the Somax Power Hip Trainer, you can work the muscles of the legs and hips in exactly the motion used during your swing.

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Set up your PHT with the hip cinch in a neutral position.

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Adjust the center column so that the hip cinch fits around your hips, then tighten the heavy-duty nylon belt. The padded, curved metal plates of the hip cinch fit snugly and comfortably around your hips.

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As you turn your hips left and right, the motion is transmitted down the center tube to the heavy-duty steel spring at the bottom. The spring provides resistance in both directions.

Fold your arms across your chest, or hold onto the hip cinch, stand in the center of the non-slip base with your feet shoulder-width apart (feet turned out slightly) and turn your hips left and right for 2-10 minutes to warm up the muscles of your hips and legs.

Since most golfers do not actively use these muscles during their downswing, the movement seems awkward at first. But you'll find in a few minutes it becomes easy and enjoyable.

Building Hip Strength

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Now you undo the cinch belt, remove the safety clip and pin connecting the cinch to the connecting column and turn the hip cinch 90º to the closed (strength) position.

Once you've tightened the cinch belt around your hips, you turn to a neutral position and again practice your hip movement (60º closed, 45º open).

You'll feel a much greater resistance. As you overcome this resistance, you'll be building up the strength of the muscles of your legs and hips. You should practice a full turn (60º closed, 90º open).

We recommend you do three sets of 10 reps of each movement, with a short rest between each set. Do it both for the short turn and full turn.

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After a short rest, you can work on speed. Set a timer for 10 seconds and see how many turns you can do. Do three sets. Try increasing the number with each set.

As you demand more from the muscles of your legs and hips, you'll "recruit" more muscle fibers. You brain will remember this, and when you go to swing a club, you'll use more of your hip and leg muscles.

Because you're working against resistance, your leg muscles will learn to stabilize you better. This will bring more consistency to your drives and irons.

Building Hip Speed

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Now that you have developed some strength with you leg and hip muscles, you can move onto the next step: building speed.

Remember, you only have 1/3rd of a second to get your hips from 60º closed to 45º open.

Unfortunately, we all have a built-in speed governor. There is a part of our brain that says we will move our hips so fast, and not one bit faster. For most of us, that speed is too slow for the downswing. Fortunately, with the Power Hip Trainer we can override our internal governor and make our hips go faster — fast enough for a powerful, effortless golf swing.

After releasing your cinch belt, you just turn the cinch 180º to an open (speed) position.

Re-attach the cinch belt to your hips, and move to a neutral position on the non-slip base. Now turn your hips back 60º and feel how the steel spring accelerates your hips to the open position.

At first it will, again, feel uncomfortable. After all, your hips are now breaking the speed limit! But with some repetition you'll get used to it.

Again, we recommend 3 sets of 10 repetitions each, both for the short turn and long turn.

Separation in the Golf Swing

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Finally, we want to train our upper and lower body to move separately. Separation in the golf swing is what separates the pros from everyone else. Until now, this independent movement of the upper and lower body has been almost impossible for most golfers to learn.

But not with the Somax Power Hip Trainer.

Turn the cinch back 180º to the strength (closed) position, and now repeat the first drills, but this time keep your arms out to the side. This will help keep your head, arms and shoulders still while you rotate your lower body. This will teach you to keep the upper body quiet while you initiate your downswing with your lower body. Again, do 3 sets of the short and long rotations.

Now, turn the cinch 180º to the speed position, and repeat your speed drills while keeping the head, arms and shoulders as still as possible.

Applying Your New Hip Strength, Speed and Hip Skills

Remember, what makes the Somax Power Hip Trainer so unique is that you are not only building strength, you are also building skills. You could build up the strength of your legs by doing squats with weights, but how many times do you squat on the golf course? And squats don't build up the rotator muscles of the hips. Only the Power Hip Trainer does that.

So, now that you've completed your exercises with your Power Hip Trainer it’s time to go to the range and swing a club. We recommend you start with a five iron. You'll notice right away that your swing feels different. Even though it feels like you aren't swinging as hard, the club head is going faster. In tests we've done with our clients using the Power Hip Trainer, golfers increased their club head speed by 30% or more.

While there will be some increase in club head speed after your first session, the biggest change comes with practice. On the average, we find it takes about 12 sessions with the Power Hip Trainer to get the full increase in club head speed. Since we recommend three sessions a week, in just four weeks you will see a significant increase in distance.

Not only will your club head speed increase, but you will also find that your shotmaking will be more accurate and more consistent. You'll experience less fatigue playing 18-36 holes. As a result, you'll feel more confident. And golf will be more enjoyable.

Aerobic Exercise and Strength Training for Life

The Power Hip Trainer is exercise for life. As your muscles get stronger you can increase the number of sets and the number of repetitions. As you master the drills and are able to go through your workout quickly, your workout will become aerobic, giving your heart the exercise it needs to stay healthy. As you increase the length of your workout beyond 30 minutes, you'll start to burn fat. Training with the Power Hip Trainer is an enjoyable way to improve your golf game, reduce your waistline, and help your heart. 

The Power Hip Trainer is portable. You can set it up on the back deck or out in the back yard when the weather is good, and bring it inside when the weather is bad. Your exercises can be done while watching the news or your favorite golf tournament.

Since it is adjustable for different heights and hip sizes, other members of your family can use it as well. Our female golfers have increased their drives by as much as 50 yards, enabling them to better enjoy playing with their husbands. Kids use it to improve soccer, baseball and basketball.

A Complete Package

The Somax Power Hip Trainer comes complete with a 90 minute instructional DVD (VHS tape also available) and a detailed manual for assembly and use. Assembly is easy.

Fast and Easy Assembly

You slip the spring tube into the retainer cup on the non-slip base, slide the connecting pin in and secure it with the safety clip.

Then you attach the connecting tube to the hip cinch with a connecting pin and safety clip.

Finally you adjust the height for your hips and secure the connecting tube and spring tube together with the third connecting pin and safety clip.

The manual will also show you how to position the hip cinch for strength and acceleration.

Flexibility is so important to your golf swing that we include directions in the manual for measuring your flexibility with our exclusive Somax Flexometer.

Quality Construction

Your Somax Power Hip Trainer is manufactured with top grade steel throughout. You'll appreciate the craftsmanship in the construction and welding of the parts, and the smooth, glossy baked-on enamel finish.

It's an exercise machine you'll be proud to show your friends and family. The quality is backed up with a thirty-day money back guarantee. If, for any reason, you aren't satisfied, just return it within 30 days and your money will be cheerfully refunded, less shipping and handling. All parts are guaranteed against defects for one year.

There's only one golf training aid that builds the secret hip strength of scratch golfers - the Somax Power Hip Trainer.

Did you know that powerful, fast hips are the hallmark of dominance in sports?

• The fastest hips in boxing belonged to Muhammad Ali.
• The fastest hips in baseball belonged to Barry Bonds.
• The fastest hips in golf belong to — Tiger Woods.

The reason that hips are the key to sports dominance is that they generate the greatest force with the least effort.

As we all learned in school, Force = Mass X Acceleration. The biggest, most massive muscles in your body are the hip muscles. The force you generate by accelerating the mass of your hips is transferred by your trunk and arms to the club — and then to the ball.

By generating the power for your swing with your legs and hips, rather than you obliques, you're free to use the smaller muscles of your arms to keep your club on plane and square up the club face prior to impact. And you don’t have to compensate for a changing spine angle because you don’t have to use your obliques.

Big muscles for power. Small muscles for guidance.

It is as if nature designed the body for golf.

Abuse the design and you're asking for trouble.

When you use your upper body for power, you abuse the design. It's like driving a Ferrari off-road. The Ferrari is a beautiful car — but it wasn't designed for off-roading. The same with your obliques. They weren't designed to generate power. They were designed to transmit power.

Your hips were designed to generate power.

This is why we call our golf teaching aid the Power Hip Trainer.

It trains your hips to be more powerful, so that you have a more powerful, consistent and accurate swing.

The weaker the hips, the higher the handicap.

Last year at the PGA show, we tested the hip strength of more than 100 PGA professionals who visited our booth. Of those 100, only two had enough hip strength that we couldn't keep their feet from coming together.

To show you that hip strength does not have to decline with age, one of those two was 65 years old.

Besides strong hips, these two PGA professionals had something else in common.

They both had very low handicaps. One was a 1, the other a 2.

For the rest, we found that the weaker the hips, the higher the handicap.

Turning your hips during your swing doesn't mean you're using them to power your downswing.

For 98% of all golfers, the hips are just ‘going along for the ride’. Only if your hips test stronger than your obliques are you using them to power your downswing.

We always go to the strongest batter in the line up when we have to score.

We never go to the weakest batter for a home run — we go to the strongest batter when we need to score. Since every shot in golf counts, your brain always goes to the strongest muscles to make the swing. This means that if your obliques are stronger than your hips — your brain will choose your obliques.

You'll have no choice.

You can’t ‘will’ yourself to use your hips.

Either you make your hips stronger than your obliques, or else you'll continue to ‘spray and pray’. You need a strength training routine for golf which is golf specific.

You can order your Power Hip Trainer right now.

It comes with a one-year warranty on parts and a 30-day money back guarantee.
You'll have a home machine that gives you an aerobic workout while improving your golf game.

Are you looking for golf gift ideas? Power Hip Trainers make great golf gifts!

Order your Power Hip Trainer now. Say goodbye to weak, ineffective hips and hello to long, accurate drives.

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Quality construction backed by an iron-clad guarantee.

The Power Hip Trainer is designed for years of service.
It's made from the finest steel and finished with a baked-on rust-resistant coating. The base has a special non-slip surface. Finished entirely in black, it will make a handsome addition to your exercise room, or it can be quickly assembled and disassembled for every-other-day use.

Your Power Hip Trainer comes with a one-year warranty on all parts. If anything should break (nothing has so far), just return the part for a cheerful, prompt replacement.

It also comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. If, for any reason, you are not happy with the results from using your Power Hip Trainer, just contact us for a return authorization. Once we've received your hip trainer in resalable condition, we will issue a prompt refund, less shipping.

You need aerobic exercise.

I know, because I suffered a heart attack myself. I thought I was in good shape. I biked hard on the weekends, even taking my bike to Europe for a couple of weeks every summer. But I had a heart attack because I didn’t exercise every day.

If you're like me, you work long hours in order to enjoy playing golf. But walking the course isn't enough. You need aerobic exercise.

But where do you find the time?

Well, you could run at lunch, or take your bike to work.

But, let’s face it, is that realistic?

And if you run, you should be aware that running creates scar tissue in your hips that will make them stiffer. And stiff hips don’t turn fast enough for golf.

What’s the answer?

The answer is our Power Hip Trainer. Your Power Hip Trainer comes with a DVD containing 26 drills for right and left-handers. The drills will combine into a vigorous 45 minute to one hour aerobic exercise workout.

Now, you can train the heart of your swing (the hips) while you train your heart!

Does it work?

You bet it does! By exercising every day, I've lost 40 lbs. of fat. My triglycerides have dropped from 350 to 77. My cholesterol has dropped from 225 to 173. My top speed on my bike rose from 20 mph to 22 mph — a 10% improvement.

I’m in better shape than I was six years ago. I now have more endurance and more power.

My regimen is simple. I use my Power Hip Trainer every other day for an hour, and I walk the hills around my home with my dog for an hour every day that I don’t use my Power Hip Trainer.

Stronger hips. Stronger heart.

What a combination!

Special bonus #1

If you order today, I'll send you a $39.95 bonus, just for trying out my
Power Hip Trainer. Your bonus is The Efficient Golfer, the first golf book to show you how to use your home camcorder to videotape and measure your swing mechanics.

Now, at home, you can measure the changes in your spine angle, your downswing sequence, the speed of your hips, and your flexibility during your swing.

This book is a special bonus for ordering today. If, after 30 days, you decide to return your hip trainer for any reason, the book is yours to keep.

Order your Power Hip Trainer now. It comes with a one-year warranty on parts and a 30-day money back guarantee. The price is only $275, plus $35 for shipping, and you will have a home machine that gives you an aerobic workout while improving your golf game.

Special bonus #2

When you order my Power Hip Trainer, I'll send you, at no additional charge, bi-weekly emails to help you get the most out of your new machine.

I want you to be successful with your new Power Hip Trainer. I realize, from my own experience, that it's one thing to buy a new training aid, read the manual, watch the DVD, and then start working with it — but it's entirely different when someone with experience shows you how to use it.

The hip trainer is simple, but getting the most out of it is an ongoing process. My bi-weekly emails will help you do just that.

P.S.
If you found that you have less than 60° of internal hip rotation on each side, then you'll be interested in my Microfiber Reduction program.

Microfiber Reduction is a special program that increases flexibility far beyond what stretching alone can do. Tour players who have completed my Microfiber Reduction program have won the US (as a rookie) and South African (beating Ernie Ells) Opens, improved their ranking in putting average from #113 to #1, increased their longest drive from 295 to 400, and quadrupled their tour income.

See how Microfiber Reduction can improve your flexibility.

             — Bob Prichard